Preface
When JDK 1.0 was released, it comprised eight packages with a total of 212 classes and interfaces. To be a Java programmer during that time was to know something of all of them. Because four of the eight packages dealt with graphical user interfaces, being a server-side Java programmer (if there had been such a thing then) would probably have meant knowing just about any method call you were likely to use right off the top of your head.
Java 1.3 includes 77 packages with over 2,000 classes and interfaces, but this number understates the explosion of Java APIs. This figure only includes Java 2 Standard Edition; we also have Java 2 Enterprise and Micro Editions, each with many additional APIs. No longer is it possible to expect a Java programmer ...
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